The Sun. — London, England, 1864-10-19 00:00:00

MANCHESTER DIALOGUE. THE DEGENERATE PEERS. A GIRDLE ROUND THE WORLD, ea. In "FUN" This Week. One Penny. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY. LANE,- Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton, Tars EVENING, a new and original Farce, by Edmund Falconer, entitled THE O'FLAHERWS. Mr. Edmund Falconer; Messrs G. Belmore, Barrett. Fitzjames, &c.; Miss Iludspeth, Miss E. Falconer, Mrs. H. Vandenhoff, &c. After which, at a Quarter to Eight o'clock, Shakespere's Play of CYNIBELING. Mr. Phelps ; Messrs. Creswiek, H- Marston, Walter Lacy, E imund Phelps, A. Raynor, G F. Fitzjames, &C. ; Miss Atkinson and Miss Helen Yauzit. L oors open at ha f-past Six —Commence at Seven. T HEATRE ROYAL, HAY MARKET. - Lessee. M^. Buckstone. T lIIS EVENING, MADEMOISELLE DE BELLE ISLE. Messrs. Howe, Farren, Gordon, Baird, &c. , Mesdames , 3eatrlce, Ange . , &c. Alter which, PRESENTED AT COURT. Messrs. Back stone, Howe, W. Farren, Rogers, Clark - , Bra d, Sze. ; m es . data es Snowdon, Griffith, Ili I, Wright, Lovell, &c. And BACCHUS AND ARIADNE. To commence at 7. "ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE, Under the sole management of Mr. Fechter. This Theatre will OPEN on SATURDAY. October 22, with a New Drama, entitled the KING'S BUTTERFLY, la which Mr. Fechter will perform the principal character, The Scenery painted by Mr. William Callcott. The Box-office open daily from Elev,n till Five. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. 1 addy D'ltafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. After which, THE STREETS OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fi her, D. Murray, J. Nelson, H. Forrester. H. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry Marston, Miss Emma .Barnett, and Miss Fanny Gwynne. NEW THEATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPIII.- Bale Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Novelty and Attraction - Third Week of Mr. John Collins, the popular Irish Comedian and Vocalist, who is only en gaged for a limited number of nights. THIS EVENING, and during the Week (by desire), the Comedy of THE IRISH AMBASSADOR. Sir Patrick O'Plenipo, Mr. John Collins (with the song of "The Bold Soldier Boy"), supported by Messrs. Billington, Stuart, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, R. Romer; Mrs. Billington and Miss Henrietta Simms. To conclude with the celebrated acrio-cemlo Drama, by S. Lover, Esq., of RORY O'MORE. Rory, Mr. John Collins, with tae songs of " The Wl.tow Machree," and " The Sprig of Shillilah." Tho other characters by Mr Billington, Mr Faillips, Mr Paul Bedford, 3lr Stuart, Mr Stephenson, Mr 4.3. J. smith,; Mrs. Alfred Mellon and Miss Kate Kelly, &c. Commence at 7. R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Manager, Mr. Benjamin Webster. EMINEN JO TALENT AND COMEDY. This popular Theatre is Open for the Winter Season. THIS EVENING, UNDER THE ROSE. At a quarter to 8, Mr. Arthur Sketchley's highly successful and original Comedy of HOW WILL THEY GET OUT OF IT? Mr. J. Maddison Morton's New Comedy Farce, entitled WOOD( OCK'S LITTLE GAME. Mr. C. Mathews, Mrs. auk Matthews. Those celebrated artistes, Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews, are re engaged. Mrs. Stirling, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Matthews, Mr. le. - Robinson, Mr. Ashley, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Johnstone, Mr. W. H. Eburree, Mr. H, J. Montague; Miss Wentworth. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS' EVENING, JNLI3IITED CONFIDENCE. Followed by, at Eight, 3IIL KY WHITE. Messrs. Craven, Etoyle, James ; Mesdames Swanborough and Manders. After which, the great Burlesque, THE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Messrs. Fenton, James, and Thorne; Mesdames Swanborough, Simpson. Johnstone, Hughes, and Carson. COALS. —The LILLES HAL L COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'.......2ss. per ton: I Doable.. . 21s. per ton. Top 245. „ Detp 223. „ Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and i 7, South Wharf, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke lss. per chaldron. Terms cash. JOIIN SCOTT, Sole Dent. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN,' Containing the Latest SPORTING TNTELLIGENCE, DAD be had .Every hvening of G. R. GLLNIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Ilyde-park. THE LATEST EDITION of '°THE SUN" supplieJ, ns soon as published every Evening by II BROOKS, - Newspaper Agent, 21, Old Cavendish street, W. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tits DlT.—Morning,, 4h. 2801.—Afternoon, 4a. 48m. 1 0 -woßnow.-Morning, sh. 8 m—Afternoon. sh. 30m. A 4 ,, "7 . O. 11 SP*ip SUIT. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 19, 1864 The newsof the death of the Duke of NEWCASTLE, although not unexpected, will be received with general regret. Although a long and severe illness had, in a great measure, prepared both his col hagues and the public for the mournful intelligence, hopes had been entertained up to a late period of his possible recovery, and he was etill at an age when many more years of my - fill life might have been supposed to lie before him. Although never filling the first rank as a statesman or a politician, and remarkable neither for oratorical talent nor for great administrative ability, he was one of those men who are so ill-spared by any party, more especially by one which had so many prema. tare losses to deplore as the Liberal party has of late years. As in a theatre, it is often much easier to assign the role of a hero or heroine or villain than it is to fill worthily the less conspicuous but hardly less important minor parts, so it is often in the political world much easier to find Prime Ministers and Lord Chaccel'ors than to support them with men sufficiently capable for the requirements of the public service who are yet willing to accept a subordinate position. Tact, eloquence, and talent may do a great deal, but there remains the sterling sense, tho sound discretion, the indefatigable in dustry that England requires from her public men, and in all these qualities the Duke of NEW.. CASTLE was pre-eminent. His public career was more chequered than might have been expected from the heir to so ancient a duke. darn. He opened his Parliamentary life by sitting for South Nottinghamshire, where his father, the anti-Reformer, had overwhelming in fluence, Little was heard to distinguish him from the rest of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S followers, except his appointment as Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests in 1841, Bat the great political ,crisis of 1815-6 brought the young Earl of LINCOLN into prominence, since ho found himself from conviction opposed to his father. It was, therefore, not sur prising that so bitter an opponent of Reform as the old Duke of NEWCASTLE should allow political partisanship to outweigh parental feeling, and should exert himself to oppose his son's return on his presenting himself to his constituents for re election. The Government was thus placed tem• porarily in an awkward dilemma, for the rejected candidate had been appointed Secretary for Ireland in the new Ministry, The Earl of LINCOLN, howl ever, was not long in finding a seat, which curiously enough he again owed to family in fluence, since his father-in-law, the Duke of HaminToN, procured his return for the Falkirk borghe. The events which followed are well known. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S term was brief, and his death completely disorganised his party, The Earl of LINCOLN became Dake of NEWCASTLE before he ,again acc,pted office under the Earl of RERDEEN in the memorable coalition Ministry. Tais appointment brought him little pleasare. The disasters of the Crimean expedition aroused the in. dignation of the country, ar.d bitter reproaches were hurled at the Ministry. It is always easy and convenient to put the blame upon one man in particular, and accordingly the Duke of NEIV- C kSTLE, as Secretary of War, was selected as the victim. He Was thrown overboard to lighten the h vessel and save his coll eagues; but thinking men were not long in detectin g the ungenerous artifice, The blame, great and heavy as it justly was, rested on no one man's shoulders. It was partly the fault of di:te was of routine, which could not accommod a t e to any emergencies, and more especially Was it owing to the perverse and vacillating conduct of the Cabinet, which allowed the oonntrt, according to the famous expression,." to drift into war.'; No preparations were made suitable for a prolonged struggle with one of the great Powers of Europe, no wise forethought was exercised as to the possible requirements of an army of men on a foreign soil, and when the war bad actually commenced, instead of powerful and vigorous action, instead of fresh and unanimous spirit being infused into old forms and offices, matters went drifting on in the same timorous, uncertain, half-hearted way. The fact was that the strong feeling of the people dragged the Ministry into a war which, in their hearts they were unwilling to undertake. All their fear seemed to be that the Russians should suffer too much. They allowed them to keep open their com munications between the Crimea and the mainland. They would not allow their Baltic forts to be bom barded; and whatever the real motive or influence, there is no doubt that the English Ministry were anything but in earnest about the prosecution of the Russian War, and the whole blame of his col leagues' vacillation rested on the shoulders of the Duke of Newcastlewhen all active preparations would have been paralysed by the influence of the Czar's "friend of forty years." After some years of tempo rary retirement the Duke again entered official life, this time as Secretary for the Colonies under Lord PALMERSTON. His return was regarded with genes ral satisfaction, for it was felt that he had not been well or fairly treated. In this post he showed his usual good sense and moderation, qualities which were especially valuable when he became escort of the Prince of WALES in his visit to Canada four years since. The discretion which he showed in advising the young Prince to keep entirely clear of all sectarian demonstrations was highly commend able, and quite in accordance with the feeling of this country. Unfortunately the Duke was com pelled to resign the fatigues of office early in this year, and, after many months of illness, he has at length succumbed. He has passed away bearing the reputation of a just and conscientious man, who exerted himself in every sphere which he en tered to fulfil its duties to the utmost, and who leaves a name which will be long and deservedly I respected, not only by his political associates, bu by his countrymen at large. Earl RUSSELL had a pleasing task to perform on Monday when he opened the North London Work ing Classes Industrial Exhibition. This is as inter esting an affair as any that could be set on foot by a Statesman, and the noble lord must have fully appreciated the important signification of the work that day inaugurated. It is quite an era in the history of the country that the working men should have undertaken such a thing. The Secretary read a report which was very interesting, and furnished the particulars of the case. It told how this attempt had been set on foot in a great measure by the suc cess which had attended the Working Man's Exhi bition in the South of London, and also because it has been believed that much "dormant talent" was hidden among the working classes, which it would be well to draw forth and encourage. The objects exhibited are manufactured by the exhibitors "either as si•ecimens of skilled workmanship, or as examples of self-taught handicraft. Earl RUSSELL'S obser vations upon the occasion were appropriate and well timed, and the noble lord appeared to enter fully into the spirit of the affair. He expressed his delight at the general style of the affair, and des cla red that the works exhibited reflected the high• est credit upon all concerned. After declaring that the originators of the scheme had evidenced their judgment in undertaking the affair, the noble lord emphatically said, "I must confess that it affords me pride and pleasure to be the fellow-countryman of men who have so employed their time, and who have exhibited the greatest ingenuity in the works that they have performed, and in that manner have done credit to the country to which they belong,'► It is a very good thing that Earl RUSSELL should have thus expressed himself. He has thus ren dered the cause a double service —first, in encou raging those who so frilly deserve recognition from high quarters, and also in affording the evidence of a competent witness as to the practicability and succsss of the affair. There are always many to cavil at these experiments and to foretell a breakdown and a failure of some sort, and thus a decided nega tive ought to be put upon their strictures by an influential personage. No one can suppose that one in Earl RUSSELL'S position is not a disin terested party, nor think that the noble lord is not a competent judge as to the merits of the affa:r. The working classes of London deserve the en comiums passed upon them by the noble lord, and if anything were wanting to prove the truth of the noble earl's observation that they were the highest in the world, it would be the fact of this exhibition. Mr DIGBY SEYMOUR made some effective remarks in proposing a vote of thanks to the Chairman, and truly declared that the noble lord had done good service to their undertaking by coming forward to preside at their opening. The noble lord's associa tion with the progress of the people rendered him a worthy man to pet form such a duty, and his presence was evidently hailed with satisfaction. Mr DIGBY SEYMOUR concluded his speech by the very appro, priate quotation of the epirited lines of LONG FELLOW :-. " Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Was their destined end or way ; But to know that each to-morrow Fuund them further than to-day," This is exactly the tone which should pervade the community of the working classes of this great country, and some such influence has pervaded the progress of this undertaking, which bears evidence of far higher qualities and more determined energy of character than any that distinguished the great Industrial Exhibitions of the land. These were carried out in their greatness and grandeur by those whose time was more at their own dis- posal, and who had ample means at their command, but this better display of skill and indus try has been created by men who have had to work while they were performing the tasks which now call forth such general admiration. It is almost impossible to estimate fully the advantages that must accrue from such an affair. It is only by the test of time that they can be appreciated and under stood, but many good results naturally occur to the mind in dwelling upon the subject. Many men will have proved their capabilities in such a striking manner that they will be able in future to go on and prosper without fear of failure; and one of the chief characteristics of the undertaking will b e that it will hold out a premium for steadiness. These who seek to excel in their particular depart-- merits, whatever they may be, must necessaril3 devote their skill and strength unimpaired to the service, and it will be a powerful incentive to the practice of temperance in all things, that they may have the opportunity of displaying their powers to thJ bast advantage, and of individualising them- selves, as it were, before the eyes of their fellow workmen. Another gain to bo reaped from this fruitful harvest of toil and industry is, that those sedulously engaged in the duties of their vocation will not be so apt to indulge in violent outbreaks of political excitement as those who are rest lessly *enduring about and longing for some exciting cause of ditc.lEsion. RUSSELL wisely counselled moderation tc the working classes, and assured them that in Earl time they had good reason to hope that all abases I would be rectified by the advance of intelligence and the influence of public opinion. The surest way for the lower classes to elevate themselves is to exhibit the qualities of prudence, temperance, and fortitude, which have been largely put into re quision to achieve this work in question. It is a source of general rejoicing that this Industrial Ex hibition has been successfully accomplished; it bears a promise for the future that is rich and rare, and it is an evidence of the improvement of the lower orders that is most encouraging and honourable in the sight of God and man. We can recognise in this movement the significance of what the poet has celled " The nobility of labour, the long pedigree of toll." Despite the forthcoming Presidential election, the best efforts of Mr LINCOLN and his friends fail to represent the Federal cause as flourishing in the field. According to the intelligence brought by the North American and the Baltimore, at three days later date than the last news we received, it was beginning to be admitted in New York that GRANT'S operations at Petersburg and Deep Bottom have been failures. No news had arrived from him or his quarters excepting the Confederate intima. tion that they claim to have captured 1,800 pri soners during the recent eng&gements. All eyes in the North are now, however, turned in the di. rection of Missouri, where important events are impending. General PRICE is marching on its capital, Jefferson City, while a large force under MAGRUDER is said to have entered Arkansas, and to be preparing for an encounter with Gene ral STEELE and his army, when, if successful, they will attack St. Louis and proclaim the annexa tion of Missouri to the Southern Confederacy. The acquisition of this great Western State will be of vast importance to the Confederates, and will be very unacceptable to the North. The state of the pubre mind and th 3 lack of confidence in the smooth words and fair stories cf the Government is clearly shown by the agitated condition of the gold market. It opened on Oct. 7th at 198, rose to 206, fell to 199, and closed at 201; Exchange 22L uly a satisfactory condition of things! If this is to be the prospect for another Presidential term, what do Mr. LINCOLN'S followers expect to be the end ? SHERIDAN is still at Harrisonburg inactive, while a Confedt rate force is said to occupy SHERMAN'S rear. Federal reinforcements have been sent to Nashville, but the best efforts of the North do not seem to avail much in that quarter. Altogether the state of affairs does not look well for the friends of the Union. The Confederate Bazaar at Liverpool. Yesterday a magnificent bazaar in aid of the Southern Prisoners' Relief Fund was opened at St. George's Hall, Liverpool. A number of aristocratic and fashionable ladies of Southern birth or proclivities presided at stalls named after the various Confederate States. The amount of pro perty on the stalls was of unusual vat iety, magnificence, and value, and as the attendance of visitors almost impeded locomoticn, the bazaar, which will last for four days longer, will prove very profitable. The committee of the Southern Club, by whom the un dertaking has been originated, and who have buckled to their work with their wonted energy, especially disclaim laving any political object in view. The motive which has actuated them is one of a far higher and more philan • thropic character; it is that of ministering to the bodily wants of men who have been st uck down amid the shock of contending armies, and who have been laid prostrate while exhibiting the virtues of bravery and heroism. Great have been the preparations to make the bazaar one of the most attractive and magnificent ;ever witnessed, and the issue bide fair to be a signal success. Some months have elapsed since the announcement of the intention of the organisation of the project was first made public, and since then no effirt has been wanting to realise the fondest hopes of its promoters. The members of the Southern Club—numbering s )me of the leading men not only in the busy port of Liverpool. but in the kingdom —have entered right heartily into the spirit of the thing, and many a fair and aristocratic hand has for some time past been busily plying the needle in order to produce for the stalls something rich and rare for the occasion. Ar ticles of every description have been poured upon the exe cutive committee in superabundance, and so far as fancy work is concerned, perhaps the splendid hall never before witnessed so motley and yet so choice an array, But while the ornamental occupies a conspicuous place, the useful has by no means been forgotten, for goods of every description crowd the numerous stalls, not only from all parts of Eng land, but from Rome, Paris, Canada, the Southern States of America, and even from New York itself contributions have been received, the contributors feeling that the object of the movement is in no respect political, but is strictly confined to a purpose in which every benevolent mind may well delight to share. The master mind of the undertaking has undoubtedly been the hon. secretary, and the most able champion of the Southern cause—Mr -James Spence ; and that gentleman has shown himself as fruitful of resource, and as ready at organising an undertaking of this sort, as he is scathing and powerful with his pen. Mr Spence has, too, had most zealous and willing coa :jutors, for Mr C. K. Prioleau, the hon, treasurer, Mr Charles Stoese, Mr Older shaw, Mr Forwood, Mr F. Hull, and the members of the executive committee generally have not been a whit less indefatigable than he. Towards the object for which the bazaar is to be held upwards of £7,500 have been received in subscriptions; and that sum is likely to be increased daily for some time to come, and the presents of goods have, to say the least, been on a scale of equal magnitude. Of the 1,500 season tickets of 7e. 60. each issued, more than 1,400 were sold. The names of the patronesses aro the following :—11.1.H. the Princess Murat, the Marchioness of Lothian, the Mar chioness of Bath, Maria, Marchioness of Aylesbury, La Marquis de Montmort, the Countess of Chesterfield, the Countess of Tankerville, Lady Mildred Beresford-Hope, Lady Rosa Greville, the Countess Bentivoglio, Lady Georgiana Fano, Lady Eustace Cecil, Lady Wharncliffe, Hoghton, Lady A nson, Lady Eardley, Mrs. La Viscomtesso de Dampie rre , L a Baronne de Longueuil, Lady de Horsfall, Liverpool ; Mrs. Laird, Birkenhead ; Mrs. Akroyd, Halifax; Mrs. J. It. Callender, Manchester; Mrs. Collie,, Glasgow. L or d an d Lady w London ncliffo and the Counte ss o f Chesterfield are to o a n r ; and Mrs. B.ann ao take part in the baz:►ar, and during th e i r stay they will join the aEarinl Sand a t he Co d u e n n t , and the pr l b i y o Hon, " IN C- Pr 71a1ey. L or d Camp bellson, the Confe derate States Minister, aro here too, and the guests of Mr. James Spence, Abercromby-square. Mr. A. J. Beresford- Hope and Lady Mildred Beresford-Hope will stay with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Hull, Rodney-street, while Sir Richard and Lady de Hoghton will be located at the A.delphi Hotel. The executive committee of the bazaar consists of about 30 gentlemen, and of these the following htive respective departments allotted to them : —Mr. Charles K. Prioleau, finance; Mr. James Spence, stalls and general manage ment; Mr. Trapmann and Mr. Charles Stoess, music and refreshments ; Mr. Oldershaw and Mr. John Sailers, recep tion ; and Mr. A. B. Forwood, amusements. Rumor, COLLEGE.—On Friday last the Fel lows of Balliol College, Oxon, came to a resolution which will thenceforward admit Roman Catholic undergraduates to that great and learned society. DARING BURGLARY AND OUTRAGE IN ESSEX.— The quiet village of Woodford, in Essex, has just been the scene of a daring burglary and attempt to murder a policeman, which it is to be feared may prove fatal. A farmer named Joseph Kemsley, whose land stands by the side of the Woodford-bridge-road, lives in a somewhat re tired spot, with his two daughters, near Woodford, and at about half-past 11 o'clock on Friday night last the two young women were suddenly awakened by three men dressed as labourers, with crape over their faces, and other wise disguised. They threatened them with instant death if they raised any alanr. One of the ruffilna held a pistol to the head of ono of the girls, and, with a heavy bludgeon in the other hand, so terrified them with imprecatins and throats that they both fainted, and remained unconscious for some considerable time. The bur glars took advantage of the helpless condition of the girls to possess themselves of a small gold watch (maker's name, Hall, Romford), with gold key attached, a French silver watch with plain silver guard, two sloth wide-a -wake hats, one black and the other brown, about £4 in gold, and 9s. in bilver. While th , y were ransacking the house a man servant who slept up-stairs heard them, but was afraid to venture down or to give any alarm, but a policeman named Delerbertanche, No, 146 K, observing an unusual moving about of lights in the house, managed to effect an entrance, and met the ruffians in the parlour, just as they were about to open the chiffonniere. The three burglars set upon the unfortunate policeman, and beat him severely about the head and body. They then degamped, and the man in the house did not stir from his room or make any endeavour to raise an alarm, and the poor fellow who had been so grieviously ill-treated lay there weltering in his blool fur a considerable time, until ho was found by the sergeant of police and another patrol. He was conveyed to the police-station, where he at present remains in such a dangerous state that, erysipelas having supervened, his death is expected. THE DAVENPORT BROTHERS. On View, at the Hanover-square Booms. Last evening, between seventy and eighty gentle men, connected with the London Press, assembled at the Hanover-square Rooms, for the purpose of eves mining into the nature and peculiarities of a Mystic Display, which has for several weeks past been pro minent among the miscellaneous town-talk of the metropolis. Following Mr Home succeeding Mr Forster there have come to us, quite as a matter of course (like those two renowned personages) from Amerioa•—a whole group of— we can't precisely say Wise Men from the East, but thwever-you-may-like-to-call-them from the West. A whole ouster of American Exhibitors— Exhibitors of they don't know what! The enter prising young gentleman who is the Barnum of the occasion, being, just as you may please to call him, a holy or an unholy Palmer. The Spokesman of the Performers, who talks to us in front of a move able wooden cupboard, raised upon tressles, is our old friend (with a new and decidedly Yankee face) Mr Ferguson. And—listening to him as he talks, and looking at the structure about which he is talking—we very soon discover that Mr Ferguson don't lodge there—he only discourses about it. There is a Fay, too, we should observe, but it happens to be a veritable, substantial flesh-and-blood Fay, among these choice spirits recently imported to England from America. And last, but not least, there are those two —how shall we designate them P—serious speechless Dromios, the Brothers Davenport. Any exhibition at once moreclumsy or more childish we never remember to have witnessed. The pro ceedings were from first to last simply preposterous. They were—at any rate according to our estimate of them--nothing less than an insult to the com mon sense of every rational auditor and of every sane spectator in the room. During nearly two mortal hours we endured the tedium and absurdity of these most ridiculous demonstrations. The puerile character of these demonstrations has too frequently and elaborately been described, by Mr. Dion Boucicault and others, to require that it should be here once more minutely delineated. The displays, such as they are, have become by this time little less than notorious. They are vulgar to the last degree of vulga rity. They are noisy, blatant, and ridiculous. A sufficiently intelligent observer among those present last evening —not a savant, lot us observe, not a philosopher, merely a writer of penny serial publications very well known "down Whitechapel way"—neither a Professor Owen nor a Professor Faraday—simply Mr. 0. W. M. Reynolds, of Reynolds's Newspaper and Reynolds's Miscellany —threw out a capital suggestion by way of test, namely, that the Brothers Davenport, besides being strongly bound by cords, twisted and knotted about their wrists and ancles, folded across their knees and fixed to the bench upon which they arc seated, should be tied up likewise at their wrists and aneles, and so on —with packthread ! Let them, ho argued, be so twined about with bonds of packthread, as well as with strong cord, and if—after the tumult of discordant sounds, emanating from the closed structure—the packthread proved, upon the opening of the doors, again, to be still unbroken—he would believe, but not till then, that the Brothers Davenport them selves had nothing whatever to do with these demon. strations With the tinkling of the guitar strings, the rattling and thumping of the tambourine, the jingling of the muffin bell, the scraping of the fiddle and the clanging of the trumpet ! A shrewd and reasonable proposition enough in itself, but one that—as a matter of course —was not acceded to ! Among other rather significant circumstances noticeable in connection with these singularly stupid, tedious, and contemptible performance e, the following are worthy of being particularised by reason of their very obvious significance. The Brothers Davenport, for example, while to all Bp pe.arance quietly seated inside the cabinet, bound hand and toot, after each tumultuous clamour of fiddle, trumpet, belt, guitar, and tambourine, upon the opening of the doors, though still seated quietly and as strongly corded as ever, proved, upon being scrutinized through a lorgnette, to he absolutely streaming with perspiration! Indicative, as it appeared to us, of violent muscular exertion on their part during the very interval of their apparent quieecense ! Again--when it is borne i❑ mind, that upon the fourth or fifth time of their being shut into the cabinet (bound hand and foot) upon the re-opening of the door of the structure, a few micutes afterwards, the cords are found to be lying in a loose bundle at their feet—themselves unbound ! And when—still later on —the doors being closod, while the cords lay in:a loose heap between the feet of the two unbound brothers, a few minutes afterwards—on the flying open of the doors, the two men were found:strongly corded up, bound hand and foot. each to the bench upon which he was seated—is not the conclusion to be arrived at perfectly transparent ? Namely, that as they can be released from the cords (no matter how) at that stage of the performance, and then fastened up again securely (no matter by what agency) they might, they obviously were released from thoir bondage upon each of the previous occasions when the musical instruments were agitated—resuming their fritters in time enough to appear manacled as before when the clamour had ceased. Seeing that the principal mystery Oa disant) of ,he whole of this very ludicrous exhibition consists ,n the tying and untying of these same amiable Brothers Davenport—the question requiring to be solved in their regard is at tho least, it may be allowed, a knotty question. All that seems to be _ _ needed by them is—what wo, for one, should certainly bo disposed to allow them—namely—rope enough. Fastensd tightly hand and foot in a sitting posi tion, immediately confronting each other, inside the wooden structure (profanely spoken of, more than once, by the American Showmen as a Tabernacle) the Brothers Davenport there, when entirely concealed from view by the simple fact of the three doors of this ridi culous clothes-press or wardrobe-upon.legs being fastened from within by sliding bolts (the two side ones by the nimble fingers of their long-armed exhibitor or showman, Mr Ferguson—the centre one through the audible snapping of the sliding bolt by, how shall we express it ? some very Odd Force, or by the agency of some exceedingly materialistic spiritualism)—tbe Messrs Davonport there and then went through (such as they were) their nonsensical performances. If we were seriously challenged to explain bow the whole thing was managed by them—taunted per haps precis e ly as S am Weller was taunte d under cross-examination in the famous case of Bardell v. _ . Pickwick, with ‘, Haven't you got eyes, Mr Weller?' —we should be di sposed to reply w i t h S am a t once to the taunt and the challenge—" That's jest where it is, my lord. If ye 'd a double pair o' patent magnifiers—ye might perhaps see through a deal board or two, and so forth, but having only eyes, you see—and using thcse even last night in a ... _ darkened room, with the gas lowered—our wision's limited." GENERAL GARIBALDI.— rhe is f ol lowing an ex tract from a letter add resse d to th e Glasgow Herald by Mr Robert M'Tear :—" Having just returned from a visit to General Garibaldi at Caprera, I think it a ill be gratifying to the public to learn the latest authentic news from the ' Island of the &a.' I found the general in per fect health, the wound being completely healed, and without pain, but leaving a stiffness in the ankle joint, rendering it necessary to have recourse to the carved oak staff sent him by a Glasgow working man, and which is now his constant companion. The general desired that I should inform his friends in Scotland that the primary object of his coming to Britain was to visit Glasgow, and that ho would not rest satisfied until ho had performed that most pleasing duty, which he hoped to accomplish next year if events in Italy permitted. In regard to his so suddenly leaving England, and the controversy which ensued about it, he assured me that, whatever ho might have said or felt in the heat of the moment, he is now convinced that it was owing to no pres sure from foreign p owers, but entirely out of consideration for his health ; aw l h e said that, instead of showing any cowardice regarding hi m, Palmerston, Russell, and Glad stone bad shown the greatest courage, and had heaped honours upon him. He said, " Gladstone has been too good a friend to Italy te be suspected for a moment." [REUTER'S EXPRESS The first decree relating to the counts above sketched was promulgated on the 13th, and em powered the Bxnk of Brazil, in virtue of the law of June 5, 1853, to issue notes to the extent of three times the amount of its disposable capital in gold. This was followed on the 14th by another decree in virtuo of the same law, in consequence of the representation of the Bank of Brazil, granting the said Bank permission to suspend the payment in gold of their notes, and making tho notes of the Bank a legal tender in all public departments in the city and provice of Rio de Janeiro. A meeting was held the same day at the Bank of Brazil, at which were present some of the chief creditors of Messrs Souto and Co., as well as the representatives of all the banks and banking establishments of the place, for the purpose of ex. amining that firm's balance-sheet. No feasible plan could be resolved on to meet the emergency, owing to the very large sum due to numberless small credi _ tors, and every one feeling that the responsibilities of such a heavy advance were too great to be thought of, notwithstanding the unanimous desire of preventing a judicial liqu . dation of the suspended bank. Besides a meeting and representation from the members of the Praca, another meeting was convoked by the Minister of Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works, on the 16th inst., which was attended by the directors of banks and heads of banking-hcwes, but nothing could be definitively settled. The Government, however, having taking the opinion of the Minister of Justice and Finance on the 16:h, a Council of State was called at 9 p.m. of that day, and it was resolved that a " supemion of payment" during the term of 60 days, to date from the 9th inst., should ba decreed. We give an extract from translation of the decree which was published on the 17th " In consideration of the extreme gravity of the commercial crisis which at present weighs down the commercial community of Rio de Janeiro, dis turbing the cou:so of business, paralysing all branches of industry, and which threatens to shake to its foundation the public peace and order; and seeing, moreover, the necessity of adopting e;n speedy and cfficnious measure which the code of laws, as it now stands, does not affurd to put an end to the evils which are much to be feared will accrue from such a disastrous occurrence; I, in conformity with the unanimous opinion of the Council of State, decree— " Ist. That curing six days to be computed from the 9►h inst., the becoming duo of all bills, pro missory notes, and other securities payable in the city and province be held suspended and pro rogued ; and also that all protests, recourses in guarantee, and prescriptions of above referred to securities be also suspended end prorogued for some space. "2dly. Article 108 of the Commercial Code shall apply as to granting time to non -matriculated forms (of merchants and tradesmen), the which, as well as conditions granted, can be effected amicably, being adjusted by a number representing two-thirds of the body of their creditors. "311 y. The suspension of banks and of banking establishments during the term which Art. 1 treats of shall be legislated by the decree of Government." The law for regulating the winding up of banks and 'making houses which have failed was promul gated on the 20th inst., and gives the administra tion of the same to two of the chief creditors, as sisted by an auditor appointed by Government, and is generally most favourable to the establishments in question. The first step taken after making out a balance sheet is, by every available means, to effect the payment of the small creditors, it not the whole amount of their claim, then the utmost the estate of the bankrupt w ill permit. - - The Approaching Trial of Muller, Some time since we stated that Franz Muller, the alleged murderer of Mr Brings, would be tried at the ensuing aLs skins of the Central Criminal Court, which commence on the 24th inst. This statement was contradicted by a con temporary, who stated that there were no grounds for any such assertion. And again yesterday morning even, we find a quoted paragraph in another paper, stating that the announcement that Muller's trial will come off on the 24th, " has but little foundation in fact, as up to the prevent time neither the committee of the German Legal Protection So ciety nor Mr Beard, the solicitor, who has the management of the case, nor Mr Maynard, his managing clerk, have decided whether the case will be fit for trial at that time." Now, wherever this information has been obtained is of course no business of ours, nor should we trouble even to refer to it were it not that the correct statement had been contradicted in terms so unqualified. Notwithstanding this contradiction, we are able to state that so far as Mr Beard is concerned, his brief is not alone prepared, but it is actually, at this very moment, in the possession of Mr Sergeant Parry. True, a communication was received from the Treasury inquiring whether Mr Beard would be prepared with the defence of Muller this session. Mr Beard, with•. out loss of time, replied that ho was prepartd, and saw no necessity whatever for postponing the trial. 'With regard to the "great mass of additional oral and documentary evidence said to have been obtained within the last few days," scarcely anything more has been elicited than that with which Mr Beard was thoroughly cognisant before the prisoner was committed even, but, with a discretion which cannot be too much commended, he has held it over till the day of trial. Thus it will be seen that, so far as the defence is concerned, the trial will take place this session about the 26th or 27th. Muller, during his confinement in Newgate, has con ducted himself with the same air of coolness and indiffer ence to his position that has characterised him from the very moment of his apprehension. He spends his time in reading, and upon several occasions when questioned he has asserted his innocence of the crime with which he is charged, ad mitting at tLe same time that it was " strange he should become possessed of Mr Briggs' property." Ho positively denies that the hat in question ever belonged to him. He persists that in repudiating the charge he has told the truth, and has coolly remarked, "If telling the truth hangs me, I can't erelp it." At times during his incarceration at New gate he has shown some signs of depression, and has occa sionally been observed to shed tears. The Confederate soldiers seem to have lost their antipathy to the Federal coleured"soldiers in Grant's army, and have ceased to fire upon them, as they formerly did, whenever the negroes made their appearance, That part of the line where the coloured troops are employed is now as quiet as any other, and it is noticed that when deserters come in they are afterwards frequently found eating with the negroes, having apparently lost their late prejudice,- 4tnerfcan LAT IST MMELLIGINCE THE COMMERCIAL CRISIS IN BRAZIL. RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 22. The business of the past fortnight has been sud denly and unexpectedly interrupted, owing to the stoppage of payment, on the morning of the 10th inst., of the important banking establishment of Messrs A. J. A. Souto and Co., and to the conse quences which immediately resulted therefrom. By far the most serious panic ever witnessed in this city immediately took possession of the public, and a run commenced on four of the chief private banking establishments by holders of receipts for deposits. One only of these firms withstood the unexpected and continued drain on their coffers. The other three resolved on closing their doors on the 13th. In the meantime many respectable firms had been unable to meet their engagements, and the utmost consternation pervaded the whole place from the impossibility of knowing who would continue solvent and who succumb under the calamity. On Sunday, the 11th inst., the Minister of Finance met the directors of the Bank of Brazil, who proposed, under certain stipulations, to take on themselves the liquidation of the firm which had suspended its payments on the previous day. Nothing, however, could be arranged, and the con ference was again continued up to midnight of the following day. The difficulty which presented it self was the expediency of satisfying an immense number of creditors, chiefly for small amounts, which, in the aggregate, represented the formidable figure of 14,200,000 dots. In the meantime the run on the National Bank for gold continued till the 14 h inst., up to which time the Bank had paid away 3,000,000 dollars of its gold, and in anticipation of the decree authorieN ing an increased emission of notes, the Bank freely discounted on the 12th and 13th inst. to the extent of 14,000,000 dollars, and thus alleviated much of the immediate pressure on the commercial commu nity. Septennial Parliaments. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SI'N. STR,—At this time, when the people are looking forward to the meeting of the new Parliament, vice the old one, deceased, the following information for your readers may be acceptable, or, at least, for those who may not be already acquainted with the facts offered for publication. The Triennial Act was passed in the sixth year of the reign of King William 111., whereby no Parliament should have any continuance beyond three years, "to be ac counted from the day on which, by the writ of sum mons, the said Parliament should bo appointed to meet." The Septennial Act, passed in the year 1715, recited this act, and it also recited to the effect that much expense and animosity had been excited by reason of the enactment, which at that time, on account of domestic turmoil and riot, might tend to destroy " the peace and security of the Government." Therefore it has been enacted that the then existing Parliament and all future Parliaments should have continuance for sevt n years, and no longer to be accounted for by the day on which by the writ of summons the then existing Parliament had been, "or any future Parliament shall bo appointed to meet, unless such Parliament there after to be summoned shall be sooner dissolved by his Majesty, his heirs, or successors." This Septennial Act, enacted chiefly to meet the par ticular national exigency of time—after almost 150 years, existence, is still the law of the land, which regulates the calling together and dissolution of the Parliament.—Yours obediently, Gun, Coon. October, 1864. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Oct. 18.—We have to report the gloomiest market to-day that has yet occurred since the present crisis commenced. Some of our spinners and manufac turers had been led to expect, to use their own phrase, that things had taken a turn, and that prices had reached a minimum. In consequence of this feeling manufacturers in several instances had written or telegraphed to their Manchester agents to advance selling quotations for their cloth Id to 2d per lb. To such persons the market has proved a great disappointment, In shipping yarns we have had very little businw s, and in yarns made from short stapled cotton prices are decidedly easier than they were last week, while for those made from long-stapled cotton the market has been *moderately firm, though without much business being practicable at the quotations. In this branch of the market (shipping yarns) business closes quiet, with a tendency to lower prices. In home trade yarns the rumours of failures have had a depressing effct, and there is a want of confidence, so that we have had a more stagnant market than previously. Low cop yarns as well as low-bundled yarns are cheaper. Cloth has been exceedingly difficult to sell. We have heard of some fair sales at a price, but gene rally the market is flat. Tee few buyers who were in the market have been making very low offers, and low as prices were before they had not touched the bottom. On the whole, cloths have been cheaper than they were before. We hear of six or seven more manufacturers having stopped payment to-day, and the feeling of gloom seems to be increasing as the knowledge of these failures come to the public ear. The commercial public have, of course, been awaiting advices from India with some anxiety, and a private telegram has been received to-day (the first since news of the crisis had begun to arrive out), and it bears out the fears entertained here that a reflex of the advices sent hence would be dis couraging. According to the telegram the markets there had been paralysed by the bad accounts to hand from this side. The large purchases of cotton at Liverpool to arrive are producing their effect, and we hear of stocks purchased at 24d per lb selling at 16d, and in some instances as low as 15d and 14d per lb. LEEDS, 18th.—The woollen cloth-markets to-day have been thinly attended by buyers, and those present confined their purchase to small parcels of a miscellaneous charac ter, including both heavy and light goods. All things con sidered, the market had as active an appearance as could be expected, and there was a stronger tone of confidence in the proceedings than was maintained on this day se'nnight. As winter stocks may be said to have now fully pasted into the hands of the retail dealers, attention is directed by the wholesale houses to spring goods, and on such and ordinary fabrics manufacturers are mostly engaged. The trade is certainly not so buoyant as we lately had to report it, yet the mills are running full time and the manufacturing ope ratives are in full employment. The failure of the Leeds Banking Company still engages a good deal of attention. The £5 notes of the company are selling at from £4 lOs to £1 15s each, and some speculative individuals advertise to day that they will give £4 12s Od a piece for them. The committee of shareholders of the bank have signified their acquiescence in the appointment of Mr. Turquand as the sole liquidator, and have issued a circular recommending them to unite in an application to the Court of Chancery to snake the appointment of Mr Turquand, which is now only provisional, permanent, There is no likelihood of any op. position to this application, and in the meantime all that can be dune at the bank, under the superintendence of the committee of investigation, is being done to forward the winding up of the unfortunate concern. Till, however, the liquidator be fully appointed the real work of winding up can scarcely be commenced. NOTTIN GUAM, 18th.—At this Exchange-hall to-day there was a fair attendance of merchants and manufactur ers. Spinners asked higher rates for lace yarns, which buyers were reluctant to pay, and business was eventually done at fully late prices. For hosiery yarns the demand was slow, but prices were unaltered. abDut the same as last week. the demand for brown nets was dull, and prices had a downward ten 3ency. ROCHDALE, 17th,—The attendance of buyers in the flannel market to-day has again been small, and they pur chased cautiously, so that less than an average amount of business was done. Though the trade is undoubtedly rather dull, the manufacturers are well employed, and as yet there is no great accurulation of stock, and a fair amount of orders are in hand. The Yorkshire goods trade is also rather quiet, and will probably remain so till the cold weather has been the means of reducing the stocks of the retail dealers, and fresh supplies are needed, Prices of goods aro steady. In the wool market there is not much business doing, but the staplers maintain late prices. SHIPPING-THIS DAY, LONDON, Oot. 19.—Wind this day at noon—Eas moderato braze and fine weather. FALMOUTH, Oct. 19.—Wind E.—Arrived—Lilly, from New York—George Dimon], from Havannah—Alexander, from Marseilles. PORTSMOUTH, Oot. 18.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Plover, from London for Barbadoes—Caroline Agnes, from Sun derland for Singapore. Oct. 17.—Wind N.E.—Arrived.—Evening Stir, fr. m Now York. PLYMOUTH, Oct. 18.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Am2ric, rotil New York. (BY "MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Arrived, Oct. 18—Oribe, from Algoa Bay.; Arrived, Oct. 19—Cornish Lass, from Smyrna—Kyanite, and Ellen, from Guernsey—Atalanta, from Quebec— Carry wich, frotnCaen. Sailed, Oct. 19--Orwell, steamer, for Melbourne—Sir Robert Peel, steamer, for Dunkirk—Belgium, steamer, for Ostead—Saino et Tamise, steamer, for Paris—'Triton, steamer, fur Boulogne—llanover, steamer, for Calais. DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Passed—Klffraran, screw steamer, for Madeira, from Loud on. Sailed—Lopa do Viga ' screw steamer, Isab e ll a B rown, Christiania, Witch of the Seas, with others, outward bound. A very lamentable affair transpired yesterday. Mr Robert Henry Williams, the London manager of the Mercantile and Exchange Bank (Limited), has died by his own hand. Some slight losses, arising from the pressure of the times, which have been ircurrcd by the bank, appear to have preyed upon the mind of Mr Williams, who was a person of nervous and susceptible temperament. It ought to be stated, however, that, as we are positively assured, there is nothing either in the private pecu niary accounts of the unfortunate deceased, or in his accounts with the bank, that can reflect any discredit upon his memory. The responsibility of his position is believed to have affected his brain, TUE REPRESENTATION OF ITNEMOUTII.—EIec . tioneering excitement has early commenced in Tynemouth. Mr G. 0. Trevelyan, who is to contest the borough at the forthcoming election in the Liberal interest, has made his debut; and, apprised of the presence of the enemy in the field, Mr R. Hodgson, the Conservative loam tenons, has tened to the scene of action. For the first time since his memorable appearance upon the hustings, in April, 1861, he met the electors and non-electors face to face, in the Albion Assembly Rooms, North Shields, on Saturday evening, the proc,edings on the occasion being of a noisy and anything but decorous character. A considerable portion of the speech of the hon. gentleman was devoted to a review of his oppo nent's recently published book, "A Competition Wallah," the object being to establish a so-called discrepancy between Trevelyan's electioneering utterances and the declara tions of his work on the subject of the Permissive Bill. Both gentlemen have entered upon au active canvass of the borough.--11etocastle Chronicle. A Cunious CASE FOR THE SURGEONS.—A little boy, the son of Mr Joseph Dedman, of Brasted, while at school sonic two years since, put a piece of ginger up his nostrils, Ills schoolmistress got it out, as slit thought, but the poor little fellow suffered for some time afterwards with pains in his nose. His mother, therefore, took him to several surgeons, but they thought a polypus was forming in his nostrils, and that was the reason he could not breathe out of one side. At last a letter was go' from a kind lady admitting him into a hospital in London, and he was there nearly two months, but then he was turned out incurable. The little fellow has suffered very much ever since, and on Friday he seemed very poorly, At last he said to his mother, I have got something coming down toy nose," and on her looking she found it was the piece of ginger which had for two years caused so much pain anc , trouble. It was quite rotten. The little fellow is nou getting better, and con, of course, breathe freely through both hootrils,—Mirrey AStomfarff. A 01 4 111141: HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, Oct. 15. The Queen, rccompanied by Prince Helena, an( attended by Lady Augusta Strnley, went out in tb morning ; and in the afternoon her Majesty drovi to Invercauld, accompanied by Princess Helena ant Prince Beatrice; and attended by Viscount° Jocelyn. Sir Frederick Bruce and Mrs Knollys had th' honour of dining with the Queen and royal family OCT, 16% Divine service was performed in the Castle by t 11( Rev. A. IL Charteris, of Park Church, Glasgow, is he presence of her AlPjesty and the royal Ta mil ?: The Ladies and G e ntl e m en i n W a iti n g Were attendance. Sir Frederick Bruce had the honour of dini 4 with the Queen and royal family. f His Royal Highness P r i nce Alf re d i s expecte d to arrive at Floors Castle to-day, on a visit to 016 , Luke and Duchess of Roxburgh°. Among the distinguie llea company invited by the Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh° to meet their royal guest will be the Duchess of St. Atha ltit Lady Diana Beauclerk, Marquis and Marchioness of N° r manby and Lady Laura Phipps, Lord and Lady Cheltas' ford, Hon. Miss Thesiger, Hon. Mr Thesiger, Sir Gee r ! Grant Suttie, Mr and Mrs Thornhill, the Misses Thornhill* Lord Llanover, Earl of Selkirk, Hon. Harry Grey, rir Graham Vivian, Captain Williams, Captain Jarrett, X r Fitzmaurice, and Mr Whate'y. The Marquis of Bristol, by the accounts received in town yesterday, was rather better. The noble raarq uiei had passed a favourable night, and was apparently greatly refreshed. The Earl and Countess of Bandon have arrived at Castle Barnard, county Cork, for the winter. The Earl and Countess Fitz william are enter' tamping a select party at Wentworth House, Yorkshire. The Earl of Dunraven has art ived at his seat ill the county of Limerick, from Wales. The Countess of Craven and Lady Craven bal e arrived at Beckett House, on a visit to Viscount and Vie• countess Barrington, from Ashdown Park. The Countess de Grey has arrived at Studlei Royal, near Ripon, from attending on their Royal Hig':v nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales in Denmark. Th e countess accompanied the infant Prince Victor Albert 011 his return home. Lord and Lady Mentegglo have arrived at Clie l4 ,enham from their seat in Ireland. Lady Henrietta Allen and the Misses Allen have arrived at their residence, 27, Chesham-street, iron' J!yde. The Right Hon, the Chancellor. of the El' chequer has arrived at Hawarden Castle from WorsleY Hall, Sir Henry and Lady Sophia Des Vceux havo left 'heir residence in Berkeley-Equaro for their Beat in Derbr _ _ shire. Sir Kingston and Lady James have left Brown'o Mr Layard, M,P., has returned to town fro" a tour in Italy and Swilz3rland. The hon. gentleman 1 156 resumed his duties as Under-Secretary at the Foreign• office, Her Maj es ty's; privat ) sit t ing which is situated on the south side of the Queen . ° rower, has been beautifully redecorated. The cell' ing, which is of a very chaste and elegant design, 1155 been repainted and gilt, and the walls have been hung in the panels with a very handsome brocaded satin of a rich crimson ground, with foliage of gold colour and white, having a very good effect, as it is in keeping wit h the other decorations of the nom. The silk has been accurately copied by an English manufacturer from the original silk, which was made by a foreign firm fur George IV. The panels are surrounded by richly carved nizi gilt mouldings, and below them is a dado of white and gold, corresponding with the ceiling. The window draperies have been arranged in a very tasteful and some' what novel manner, which is very suitable to the style of the room, and is a pleasing change from the former heavy draperies. The whole reflects great credit on the Lord Chamberlain's first officer at Windsor, Mr. Seabrook , under whose care and snperintendence the redecorations have been carried out.—Court Teurnal, Mi. 15, 1861. MR W. H. GLADSTONE AND THE REPRESENTA TION OF BLACKBURN.—It has been unwarrantably asserted that Mr William Hanry Gladstone, eldest son of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, will be brought forward at the next general election as a candidate for the represen tation of the city of Chester. There is no doubt that if alr W. 11. Gladstone consented to stand for Chester his return would result as matter of cours , ., as he would be sure to obtain the support of the Marquis of Westminster, whose influence in the city is very powerful; but Mr Gladstone has at present no intention of soliciting the votes of the Cestrians, as he has made arrangements to become a candi date for Blackburn at the next general election. The pre sent members for Blackburn are Mr W, 11. Hamby (Tory) and Mr James Pilkington (Liberal). Mr Gladstone will oppose Mr Iloruby, should that gentleman think proper to offer himself for reelection; and as the popularity of the Gladstone family is very great in the borough, not only because of the eminent services of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but also because of the benevolent exertions of the right hon. gentleman's wife to mitigate the sufferings of the cotton operatives, particularly in that locality, during last winter, the return of Mr W. 11. Gladstone is regarded as a certainty.—Liverpool Mercury, CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE. This noble structure, now so nearly approaching completion, was on Friday thrown open to the inspection of members of the recent Church Congress, 600 tickets having been pre sented by the board to the Congress committee for that pur . pose. With respect to length of span the Clifton bridge ranks third among all that have yet been erected, those at Fribourg and Niagara alone surpassing it in this particular. For beauty, situation, and glace of construction, it is pro bably unrivalled. it is expected that a very few weeks more will see it completed ; indeed, there appears now very little more to be done. The six sets of powerful chains, each in its turn composed of five parallel series of stout iron links, on which the roadway is suspended, are all in their places and firmly anchored in the solid rock at a depth of about 70 feet beneath the surface. The iron wozik of the roadway and pathway is complete—the painting nearly so, and no thing apparently wanted but the metalling of the road, The two lofty towers still want a few feet of masonry, but this is a matter rather of ornamental finish than anything else, and when the approaches on either side are completed ;he bridge will be ready for opening. This will, it is expected, take place next month, but it is still doubtful whether any public inauguration will be attempted. A rumour has been industriously circulated that Lord Palmerston has already been invited to attend. This report we aro enabled authori tatively to contradict. Whatever may ultimately be decided upon, the veteran Premier has as yet received no applica tion upon the subject, nor can any be made until the day of opening can be fixed with somewhat greater certainty. FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.—At the last sitting M. Leverrier read three letters he had re* ceived on the fire-ball of Sept. 24th ; one was from Gouzon. (Creeze), stating that the meteor was spindle - shaped, op" parently about a metro and a half in length, and in a vertical position, so that one of its points looked towards the earth, the other slightly leaning westwards. There had been a fog in the morning, and some of it still lingered in the S.E. The phenomenon was visible just above it. The atmosphere was otherwise clear, except a few thin white clouds north. and west. The second letter was from Negaro (Gera), and stated that there were two explosions as loud as thunder between noon and ten minutes past; the writer only per• ceived a small cloud of a nearly circular form, and mov ing slowly from north to south, Some persons thought the cloud luminous, others said its light was at first almost as strong as that of lightning; but as the sun shone very brightly at the time, the phenomenon must have lost considerably in brilliancy. In the third letter it was said that the bolis was observed on board the Favori advice boat, by its commander, M Erotabas, in N. lat. 40 deg. 57 min., and Paris E. long. 59 min,, and therefore north of Majorca. A paper was received from M Carus on the sub ject of the phosphorescence of the Lampyris Italica. The luminous matter of this insect is unctuous, and much like melted phosphorus; if put on a watch-glass, it loses its phosphorescent quality in drying, but regains it if put under water. This experiment cannot be successfully re peated more than once or twice ; still the fact of this revival of phosphorescence is important. inasmuch as this is the first instance of a substance omitting light when put under water, and losing this faculty again when it gets dry. M. Caron sent in a paper on cementation, in which, contradicting the views entertained by M. Margin.- ritte, who supposes pure carbon to be alone sufficient to convert iron into steel, he remarks that the operation on a large scale consists in enclosing iron bars in a large box of the same metal together with charcoal made of green wood. When the mass has got to a red hoot, the oxygen of the air contained in the box forms an oxyde of carbon by its con tact with the charcoal; on the other hand the nitrogen of the same air forms cyanides with the alkaline metals con tained in the,charcoal, so that the iron to be cemented IS in contact with time _ principal elements—viz,, car bon, oxide of carbon, and the cyanides alluded to, all of which elements are necessary to cementation. A manufactory of gunpowder has been established for some time pas* in a lonely part of the New Forest. Tho alder trees, which grow plentifully in the forest, produce the best kind of wood for making carbon, whisk is one of the ingredients of gunpowder. The New Forest is 600 square miles in extent, end scarcely any part of it is thickly inhs bited. It has been suggested that it would be well adapted kox the storing or manufacturing of gunpowder. 1 1 I ~ .~,